Angie Harmon

A native of Dallas, Texas, Angie Harmon is best known for her starring role as Assistant District Attorney Abbie Carmichael on NBC's Emmy Award-winning drama Law & Order.

Upon graduation from high school, Harmon traveled between New York and Los Angeles and began to study acting. She made her feature-film debut in the independent, Lawn Dogs, in which she appeared opposite Sam Rockwell for director John Duigan. The film screened at both the Toronto Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival.

Harmon made her network television series debut starring opposite Eric Roberts for one season as the rookie member of the FBI's elite crime unit on C-16: FBI.

Later, Harmon starred in Lifetime's highly rated Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story and subsequently traveled to Washington, D.C. with Susan Wilson to lobby Congress to strengthen the video voyeur laws (the legislation passed in September 2004). She then co-starred opposite Frankie Muniz in the film Agent Cody Banks.

Harmon's most recent film was The Deal, in which she starred opposite Christian Slater and Selma Blair. She will next be seen on the big screen in Fun with Dick and Jane (opposite Jim Carrey). She also will star opposite Cuba Gooding Jr. and James Woods in End Game, in which she plays a reporter investigating the murder of the President.

When not working, Harmon divides her time between her homes in Los Angeles and Dallas, which she shares with her husband, Jason Sehorn, and their two daughters, Finley and Avery.

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